7 Things you didn’t know about left-handed people

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Although being left-handed means having to fight in a world where everything seems done for right-handed people, there are more left-handed people than we think. In fact, they have their own left-handed day, on August 13. If we talk about lefties, we want to share with you some things that you may not know about them.

Things you may not know about lefties

Although it may not seem like it, there are physical differences in left-handed brains, with 11% more nerve fibers in the area of the brain that divides the hemispheres. According to one researcher, left-handed brains share information between both hemispheres more quickly.

A Stanford University study said left-handed people think differently. A group of participants looked at two columns of images and when asked to associate them with intelligence and honesty, the right-handers choose the right side more and the left-handers left.

Another study done from the University of Liverpool concluded that left-handed people seem to have an advantage over right-handed people when they have to carry out mathematical tasks of some difficulty.

During the middle ages, being left-handed was very dangerous because the Holy Inquisition persecuted them, burning thousands of left-handed people since in those years they were considered servants of Satan.

In London, the world’s first left-hander store was opened, it is called Anything Left-Handed and in it, you can find countless articles. Left-handed scissors, boomerangs, watches or even pens, even if it sounds very strange.

As claimed, left-handed people live nine years less than right-handed people. For a while this statement was believed, but it was an error when extrapolating the statistical data.

Among the most famous left-handers include Leonardo Da Vinci, Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Lewis Carrol or Robert de Niro among many others.